Regret Lyrics - Good Riddance

Everything that isn't from my time and place 

Just fades away 

And I know it's only my perception 

That clouds the things I want to hear you say 

All the years of desperation 

I'm like a child without the sense to dream 

About a life of foolish pride 

How can I illustrate 

Annihilate it now 

This is everything I am 

But is it all you've ever grown to see inside 

Like a broken mirror for my pride 

And there's an emptiness I feel 

And there's a silence to my dreams 

These painful reveries 

Still punctuate those tragedies I've seen 

Nobody promised that I'd be down 

It's like the savage side we've found 

Conventions we've agreed to follow 

Defined by safe obscurity 

Applications balking at protest 

We sequester and words divide 

Would I resign if I broke your silence 

And trampled myself down inside 

And if I hold you in my dreams 

How will I recognize your face 

And your silent discontent 

And will my heroes find me there 

In another time and place 

Will I regret the time we spent? 

And all the symbols we've erased 

Or the words we never traced